Watch Lizzo Unveil Two New Songs, Twerk With Flute, and Crush ‘Saturday Night Live’ Hosting Gig

variety.com:

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLizzo got a workout not seen since Donald Glover did double-duty as host and musical guest on “Saturday Night Live,” performing two songs from her forthcoming album “Special,” showing impressive comic timing and stamina by appearing in nearly every sketch — she even played flute twice, once while twerking (in fact, the entire sketch was framed around an orchestra learning to twerk while playing their instruments).For the first musical performance, she introduced herself as “Ladies and gentlemen, me!,” and sang her latest single, the discofied groove “About That Time,” accompanied by a drummer, bassist and of course her dancers, the Big Grrls — who are themselves the subject of an Amazon reality show, “Watch Out for the Big Grrrls” (a commercial for which aired just before the first song).

Clad in a spangled, bright yellow ensemble, she even played a brief flute solo during the song’s instrumental break that paid tribute to Chic’s “Good Times,” one of several past hits that “About That Time” evokes (although only World Famous Supreme Team’s 1984 hit “Hey DJ,” which is sampled on the track, appears in the credits).For the second song, she was introduced by her mother — who she shouted out in the audience during her opening monologue — which was a slower, ‘70s style ballad with self-referential lyrics:“Woke up this morning to somebody in a video/ Talking about something I posted in a video/ If it wasn’t me, would you even get offended, or/ Is it just because I’m Black and heavy, you don’t hear me though… Famous, pretty, new, but I’ve been used to people judging me That’s why I move the way I move and why I’m so in love with me.”She spent most of the rest of the show in a dizzying array of skits.